Washing your hands regularly and correctly is one of the
simplest and most effective ways to reduce your risk of contracting or
transmitting diseases. This video will teach you how to wash your hands
correctly, reducing your risk of contracting or transmitting a disease.

Human diseases are caused by organisms such as viruses,
bacteria, and parasites that can be found in the air, soil, and water

You will often come in contact with disease causing
organisms when you touch things that others have touched. If you then touch
your mouth, nose, or eyes, this increases the risk that you will contract a
disease.If the disease causing
organisms remain on your hands, this increases the risk that you will transmit
them to others.When should you
wash your hands?

You should always wash your hands:

-after
you use the toilet or latrine

-after
touching your nose or mouth after a sneeze or cough

-before
you prepare or eat food

-after
you touch raw meat, fish, or eggs

-before
and after you care for someone who is sick

-after
you change a diaper

It is especially important to wash your hands before you
prepare or eat food. If you donÕt, the disease causing organisms from your
hands can make you or other people who eat the food extremely sick.The elderly, infants, or people with
weakened immune systems are at increased risk of death if they become ill. If
you are caring for someone who is sick and has a weakened immune system, such
as a person with end stage AIDS, itÕs important to wash your hands before
touching them to avoid transmitting a disease that might make them very sick.

Finally, itÕs extremely important to wash your hands after
you use the toilet or latrine. Unfortunately, many people fail to do this, so
the latrine is often contaminated with disease causing organisms from feces.

Most people do not wash their hands long enough or
thoroughly enough to remove most of the disease causing organisms.

To wash your hands correctly with soap and water:

1)First, wet your hands with warm water. If possible, this
should be clean, warm water.

2)Apply soap.

3)Wash the front and back of your hands, your thumbs, between
the fingers, around the wrists and forearms and underneath each nail.

4)Remember to rub your hands together for at least twenty
seconds.

5)Rinse your hands off.

6)Dry your hands with a clean disposable towel, if available. If
no towel is available, do not use your clothes or a towel that has been used by
others. In this case, it is best to let your hands dry naturally, in the air.

7)Use the towel to turn off the faucet.

Remember: washing your hands is a simple and effective way
to reduce your risk of contracting or transmitting disease. This is [PRESENTER
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